Development of Pneumatic Power Assist Splint “ASSIST” Operated by Human Intention

Daisuke Sasaki; Toshiro Noritsugu; Masahiro Takaiwa

doi:10.20965/jrm.2005.p0568

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JRM Vol.17 No.5 pp. 568-574

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2005.p0568

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Development of Pneumatic Power Assist Splint “ASSIST” Operated by Human Intention

Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu, and Masahiro Takaiwa

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Received:

May 13, 2005

Accepted:

June 24, 2005

Published:

October 20, 2005

Keywords:

soft mechanism, soft actuator, pneumatic rubber muscle, wearable robot

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a pneumatic power assist splint for a human arm. In the wearable device, a high human friendliness such as a light weight, a safety is required. The developed splint is constructed with soft actuators to confer a human friendliness. In this paper, the structure of ASSIST for a human arm is described. In addition, the control method based on a human intention is proposed. In the proposed method, a center of pressure calculated from contact force between the forearm and appliance is used as an intention input signal. Finally, the effectiveness of ASSIST is evaluated using EMG.

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D. Sasaki, T. Noritsugu, and M. Takaiwa, “Development of Pneumatic Power Assist Splint “ASSIST” Operated by Human Intention,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.17 No.5, pp. 568-574, 2005.

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[1] [1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Statics of Japan 2004,” 2004 (in Japanese).

[2] [2] K. Kiguchi, M. H. Rahman, and T. Yamaguchi, “Adaptation Strategy for the 3DOF Exoskeleton for Upper-Limb Motion Assist,” Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, pp. 2307-2312, 2005.

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[7] [7] M. Sato et al., “Human engineering numerical standard handbook,” Gihodo Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1999 (in Japanese).